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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's hard not to fall into complacency about the depravity of all western institutions. They faunt it so relentlesly
And again
As @caitoz said “ One of the main things I do here is try to help articulate the scope of the horrors of the empire. Because we're in it, and it's so aggressively normalized by the mass media, it becomes easy to overlook, like water for a fish”
A blizzard that never seems to let up

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Feb 19
In #Ecuador the rightwing Lasso government has used police to ram through changes to the CPPCS (a body that overseas selection process for judical council, auditor general & prosecutors etc..)

Here is some brief background on that. The sad story begins in May of 2017

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In May of 2017, Lenin Moreno took office & immediately shit-canned the left policy platform that got him elected and adopted the one of his rightwing opponent who lost that year - Ecuador's current president Guillermo Lasso.

A key target of Moreno was immediately the CPCCS
In 2018, Moreno handpicked a "transitory" CPCCS that was supposed to step aside for an elected one. BUt the trasitory CPCCS (CPCCS-T) was grossly illegal. It was put together illegaly and then behaved even more illegally & tyranically once convened.
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Feb 13
Quotes from Domenico Losurdo's book "STALIN: THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A BLACK LEGEND" will be placed in this thread - along with comments on it
Thomas Mann quote "To place Russian communism and Nazi-fascism on the same moral place, in the measure that both are totalitarian, is superficial at best, fascism at worst...." Image
In the 90s, I recall US General Schwarzkopf doing a long segment on national TV just to pedlde the claim of Stalin's massive incompetence regarding threat posed by Hitler - a view echoed in Kruschev's "Serect Report".

Losurdo's refutation in Chpt 1 is absolutely devastating
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Dec 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu deserves to be remembered for the things he got right, but also for things he got badly wrong. I elaborated on some in a piece I wrote in 2015

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zcomm.org/znetarticle/on…
In 1987, Desmond Tutu was asked what Ronald Reagan should do about apartheid South Africa. Tutu’s response was “Do what you are doing in Nicaragua"...
Did Tutu really want the US government to organize and fund terrorists to kill tens of thousands of innocent people....
In an op-ed in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Tutu equated Leopoldo Lopez, a jailed Venezuelan opposition leader, to Martin Luther King and the Venezuelan government under Nicoalas Maduro to apartheid South Africa....
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Dec 25, 2021
Key points as I understand them:
1) Crypto, blockchain innovations are an outgrowth of financialiszation and quanitative easing bailout of 2008, new ways to prop up a system by pumping money into it

2) To an extent crypto & blockchain innovations help demystify money creation
3) You can have good things like digital sovereignty within a country, central banks that are effective & under control of elected governments AND still make room of voters (give them accouts at Central Bank) & (non-monopolitstic) companies (let them devlpo & apporve apps)
4) To speed up & populaize the us e of electionic money Ecuador should have made use of Nano lending ("which is basically to lend a citizen 30 bucks or 50 bucks or 100 bucks with an indefinite term to pay back, which can be 10 years, 30 years, 50 years")
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Jul 29, 2021
Wow. Let’s unpack this remarkably cynical tweet by a prominent human rights fraud. Orgs like @hrw are part of the propaganda system that helps the US maintain its sadistic 60 yr blockade on #Cuba

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What liberal hypocrites like Roth tend to do is say is that they don’t support the blockade while spreading sleazy distortions & lies that help maintain it. Con’d
Cuba is not short of doctors! It has VASTLY more per capita than the USA even after you account for doctors sent abroad! Takes a real scumbag to insinuate otherwise
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Jul 27, 2021
. @Reuters does a predictably rotten & biased article on @SDonziger conviction

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google.ca/amp/s/mobile.r…
No mention that DOJ refused to prosecute Donziger for contempt as requested by Judge Kaplan

How can you “miss” that but mention Judge Kaplan’s move to appoint private prosecutors?
How do you miss the Chevron links to the lawyers Kaplan appointed?

How do you “miss” that the disclosure Kaplan demanded of Donziger was for ultimate review by Chevron?
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